‘I have a car in my f—— living room!’ Man accepts wife’s challenge to protect car from Irma

Mai-Lee Acea, of Hialeah, told her husband he could put his vintage car inside their house ahead of Hurricane Irma — if he could get it through the sliding glass doors. Surprising his family, Tomas Acea managed to wedge his car into the living room Friday evening. Mai-Lee Acea

For Mai-Lee, it was the perfect plan. She’d get some points for feigning “compromise,” a skill the local couple, married since 2012, have been working on since stints on reality TV shows “Bridezilla” and “Marriage Bootcamp” on We TV.

“We are always arguing, so we’ve learned a lot of compromising techniques during our marriage,” she said. “But I never thought he would do it — it was a joke. That was the compromise.”

The joke, it turned out, was on her.

As Mai-Lee was upstairs Friday evening, Tomas Acea was downstairs dismantling the sliding glass doors that lead to their living room, making just enough space to squeeze in his dark red Datsun 300ZX, a 1987 model he has been restoring for two months.

In a video Mai-Lee posted on Facebook, she walks in on her husband and brother-in-law taking apart the glass doors.

“What the f— did you do to my glass door,” she asks, incredulous.

“Where else am I supposed to put ‘the Z,’ ” Tomas replies.

“Actually, that was the fastest I had seen him work,” she said Saturday in an interview. “The rest of the shutters must have taken hours but the sliding glass door must have taken 10 minutes.”

Tomas backed the car into the living room Friday evening, hours before the first gusts of Hurricane Irma were felt in Miami-Dade County. And for good measure, he covered it with plastic, reassembled the glass doors and boarded them up with metal shutters.